History of Philosophy Audio Archive

A few reflections on Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Third Earl and author of some of my favorite books.

Nuclear Risk Editorial Fellow Jack Kennedy https://jackkennedy.ie/about/ comes back for the second time to talk Strait of Hormuz, Israel's nuclear option, NATO proliferation risks, Nixon, Kissinger, and Vietnam. "Belt of radioactive cobalt" mentioned. By the way, ships are already paying in Yuan to access the Strait, and the IRGC has confirmed control of a working route through the S...

Hiroshima rages while Nagasaki prays. FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ON PATREON I'm joined for a second time by friend of the show Franco Castro Escobar , a PhD researcher at Keele University in the UK. This time we discuss life in Nagasaki before, during, and after the nuclear attack, trauma and education, the developmental origins of youth antinuclear activists, hibaku Maria and the destruction of...

Happy Equinox. The Beginning, is at last: beginning . Music Credit: Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Gernot Schmalfuss / Music Director and Chief Conductor Gwhyneth Chen / Piano Evergreen Symphony Orchestra National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 13 Nov. 2020 (Creative Commons). Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to the Spirit of Nature (1820).from Prometheus Unbound (Act II, Scene V): Li...

You can find the full talk from March 2025, officially-titled "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order" at the link below , via The Sanctuary for Independent Media , which Chris has lectured at for years. Chris also writes on Substack "The Chris Hedges Report" and has a podcast of the same name. Hedges also wrote something like 12 books, which I've read about 9 of, per...

Full episode description on Patreon I am joined (just in time for the all-important Vernal Equinox on March 21st) - with the brilliant and timely Dr. Maya Kornberg https://www.mayakornberg.com/. Her new book STUCK: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress was released March 10th and can be purchased now. (Non-affiliate link). Personal Disclaimer: I was given a hardcover of this bo...

RIP Habermas. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue (both also gone, Sugrue earlier this year) remember the life and theory of Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School. "Don't think that this is some fancy-Dan academic exercise. A lot of people have died because they read a book the wrong way. " -Rick Roderick on Habermas and the importance of the humanities.

If you enjoy this work, please support the show on Patreon! Will (the host) writes a Substack page about various and sundry topics. Plotinus (204-270 CE) was a mystical philosopher who transformed Plato's metaphysical ideas about the Forms and the divine intellect or nous into a spiritual path. In this lecture, Pierre Grimes (1924-2024 CE) introduces Plotinus and his work as recorded by his st...

ADVISORY - Contains explicit description of warfare, killing, torture, and mutilation. FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ON PATREON Music by Anapse.

FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ON PATREON I, William Engels, write articles on Substack. Books Mentioned: Arendt: Origins of Totalitarianism Arendt: The Human Condition Arendt: Between Past and Future Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness by Ven. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche "Natality" as a concept The Heart Sutra 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (review so far, on page 250 of 1000 - no exag...

I read Epictetus Discourses and Enchiridion with Professor Gregory Sadler https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ - although we both started off by dunking a bit on Bertrand Russell. Full show notes with books/links for free on Patreon

RIP Bruno Latour (1947-2022) Follow Will’s writing on his Substack page, Hemlock: https://williamengels.substack.com Support the entire show on Patreon and get early access: https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon In 2013, philosopher Bruno Latour delivered his lecture series “Facing Gaia: Six Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature” at the St. Cecilia Hall inside the University of Edinburgh. Th...

"Fascism is the desire for a simple folk tale" - Thomas Mann, I think. Substack's and LEPHT HAND's own Emma Stamm https://substack.com/@elftheory rejoins Will for a follow-up conversation on nuclear weapons technology, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology (1954), artificial intelligence, psychedelics research, and why becoming idiots might save us in the end. Fol...

RIP Michael Parenti (1933-2026) . A brave, undimmed (sometimes controversial, of course) critic of that great juggernaut of death: the American Empire. HoPAA #180 Watch the full video here from the College of DuPage here: https://youtu.be/OOF56wYTl1w READ TRANSCRIPT AND POST MEMES ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/151201440

Reading Martin Heidegger is tough. Here to introduce us to some core concepts in The Question Concerning Technology (1954) is Greg Sadler, whose YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@GregoryBSadler "That Philosophy Guy" has just racked up over 170K subscribers and whose podcast Sadler's Lectures (Spotify Link) is updated almost every day, including an ongoing discussion of Jeremy...

Hemlock #42 - Support the History of Philosophy Audio Archive on Patreon , and follow William Engels's writing on Substack . I am joined on this episode by independent writer and philosopher Emma Stamm to discuss the late, great, Mark Fisher. Emma is a member of the theory collective LEPHT HAND , and she has a new online course enrolling soon/now on Mark Fisher's "Acid Communism.&quot...

For Hemlock #41 on the History of Philosophy Audio Archive I am joined by MKUltra survivor Bill Yarborough to discuss government secrecy, Cold War hijinks, the refinement of torture techniques over the years, and the history of domestic covert operations in the United States. This episode contains descriptions of torture and child abuse, so please be forewarned. Bill has recently published a book...

Support the Archive on Patreon! Follow William Engels's writing on Substack . Who do the Black Hills really belong to? Was George Armstrong Custer a hero, an idiot, or a fanatic? Who carved Mount Rushmore, and what was it supposed to represent (the "apotheosis of Western Civilization?") What happened at Wounded Knee (in 1890, and 1973) - and why does Secretary of War (sic) Pete Hegse...

Support this work on Patreon Read the full write-up on this archive on William Engels's Substack, Hemlock. Part 1 of 2: We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we...

Support this work on Patreon⁠ ⁠Read the full write-up on this archive on William Engels's Substack, Hemlock. ⁠ Part 2 of 2: We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that...

SOCIALS Will’s Patreon - patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon Will’s Substack (Hemlock) - williamengels.substack.com Bad Role Models on YouTube: youtube.com/@hemlock-yt The Big BRM Playlist on YouTube Bad Role Models is a co-production of Richard Sinex, Thomas Vanek, and William Engels. ERRATA: I said "Nicholas Drake" when I meant "Thomas A. Drake" the pre-Snowden NSA whistleblower who...

SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube) Support the boys (Thomas Vanek & Richard Sinex) and I on Patreon and YouTube: https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreon https://www.youtube.com/@hemlock-yt Because someone will ask: the Nixon tape is from Feb 1st 1972 and features the Reverend Billy Graham giving his fascinating interpretation of the Jewish Question in the Oval Office. Nixon concludes (its&...

Looks like we're stuck with the Bad Elves, Frodo. You can find Jake’s work on his website , (The Rip Current) and you can find his podcast (same name) on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. His 2022 book The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back is available on Amazon . He also writes under The Rip Current on Substack: https://theripcurrent.substack.com/ Suppo...

Hemlock #39 Nuclear war, and nuclear risk, are still just as real and just as close as they have been during the tensest eras of the Cold War. I had questions about where suspected nuclear flashpoints were forming - in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Japan, and Iran - and wanted to review Trump's record of militarizing outer space, resuming nuclear testing, pre-emptively attacking Iran'...

Buy Graham's book on Terence on Amazon! Graham's website: https://www.edgecentral.net/ Reputable information about psilocybin and harm reduction: https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms.shtml James Fadiman's book/manual: https://www.psychedelicexplorersguide.com/ "We are the inheritors of one million years of striving for the unspeakable" -Terence McKenna More on Pa...